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A strange burial of a woman was found on the island of Sardinia
(ORDO NEWS) — A strange and incomprehensible burial was found in Sardinia. Archaeologists were surprised by the position of the remains. Most likely, this person was killed with a nail. Otherwise, how to explain his marks in the skull? The burial was discovered in the necropolis of Monte Luna, which is in the southern part of Sardinia. Punic people were buried here as early as the second century BC. Archaeologists…
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In an old photo from Sardinia, they made out an ancient deviant burial
(ORDO NEWS) — Archaeologists and anthropologists from Australia and Italy noticed an unusual burial in an old photograph, excavated several decades ago in Sardinia. It turned out that in one of the graves at the beginning of the 2nd century BC a young woman was buried in a prone position. The study of her remains allowed scientists to hypothesize that she may have suffered from epilepsy. Therefore, after her death,…
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Was the Pisan campaign against Sardinia in 1016 the first crusade of all?
(ORDO NEWS) — During the First Crusade, the city-state of Pisa, like many other European powers, was moved by the pleas of Pope Urban II, who in 1095 ordered the Christian kingdoms of Europe to launch a holy crusade against Islam and recapture the divine city of Jerusalem. Led by their enigmatic leader, Daibert, the Pisan chroniclers spoke with characteristic praise of their army’s efforts in the east, declaring that…
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Child ‘treated’ for syphilis found in plague grave in Sardinia
(ORDO NEWS) — A small patient of late Renaissance Italian doctors may have suffered from a venereal disease but died during an outbreak of bubonic plague. If not for the epidemic, he would most likely have received a lethal dose of an “antibacterial” agent. In the courtyard of a former Jesuit college in the city of Alghero (northwest coast of Sardinia, Italy), archaeologists recently discovered a cemetery. It had 16…
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Was the Pisan campaign against Sardinia in 1016 the first crusade of all
(ORDO NEWS) — During the First Crusade, the city-state of Pisa, like many other European powers, was moved by the pleas of Pope Urban II, who in 1095 ordered the Christian kingdoms of Europe to launch a holy crusade against Islam and recapture the divine city of Jerusalem. Led by their enigmatic leader, Daibert, the Pisan chroniclers spoke with characteristic praise of their army’s efforts in the east, declaring that…
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2 more Big-Eyed Giants statues found in Sardinia
(ORDO NEWS) — Their purpose is currently unknown, but two more disc-eyed giants from Montier Prama have been discovered in Sardinia. The Iron Age funerary necropolis of Mont’e Prama on the Italian island of Sardinia has been a source of great archaeological mystery for the past 50 years. The site was first discovered by local farmers in March 1974 on agricultural land near Mont’e Prama, in the commune of Cabras,…
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Huge stone statues 3,000 years old found by archaeologists in Sardinia
(ORDO NEWS) — The structures that the researchers discovered belong to the era of the Nuraghe, an ancient people who inhabited this area even before it became part of the Roman Empire, from the 18th to the 8th century BC. Such finds were first made back in 1975, and it was initially assumed that the authors of the sculptures were residents of Carthage. Further research has shown that this is…
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Archaeologists 3200 years ago Cyprus traded metals with Sardinia for 2500 kilometers
(ORDO NEWS) — Archaeologists partially restored the metal trade in the late Bronze Age. Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem studied lead ingots found at an anchorage in Caesarea, Israel. The four ingots were part of the cargo of a ship that sank over three thousand years ago. They had Cypriot-Minoan characters used by the Cypriots in the 13th and 12th centuries BC. Naama Yahalom-Mak and his colleagues conducted…